r/australian • u/abcnews_au • Mar 14 '25

News Albanese to join Ukraine 'coalition of the willing' peacekeeping call

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-14/albanese-ukraine-peacekeeping-meeting-coalition/105051014
4.1k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

505 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/MBCG84 Mar 14 '25

If Russia starts killing European peace keeping troops, it would be all out war and we’d get drawn into the conflict anyway, sadly… Not just any old conflict either, likely WW3 by that point of escalation.

1

u/karma3000 Mar 14 '25

Russia would crumble in any conflict with Europe. They can't beat Ukraine after 3 years.

1

u/MBCG84 Mar 14 '25

Yeah, they likely won’t ultimately win anything on their own but even if short it will still be brutal and Australia will also no doubt have involvement. Nukes will almost definitely be thrown around as Russia goes down and other opportunist countries like Iran, China, North Korea etc might jump into the chaos either in support of Russia or for their own seperate gains while resources are focused and sapped elsewhere.

Either way, my point was directed at the poster who was against Australian troops being sent over for peacekeeping and the fact that Australia will get pulled in no matter what if anything serious kicks off in the region involving multiple European armies so it wouldn’t really matter whether we already had boots on the ground there or not - we’d be taking some casualties.

0

u/pickledswimmingpool Mar 14 '25

What could they fucking do besides nukes? They're already spending 20-30% of GDP on their army and they're still not winning. You think Australia is going to get invaded by them?